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Clouds pass over Manteno, Ill., on Oct. 26, as a storm producing high winds passes through the area. Josep P. Meier/SouthtownStar/AP

Pedestrians fight high winds and rain along East Madison Street and southbound Wabash Avenue in Chicago's Loop on Oct. 26. Strong wind and torrential rain buffeted the Midwest Tuesday as forecasters predicted the giant storm could be the most powerful to hit Illinois in over seven decades. Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune/AP

Broken umbrellas lie in a trash can outside the Lyric Opera, after morning storms in Chicago, on Oct. 26. A storm drawing comparisons to a hurricane muscled across the Midwest on Tuesday, snapping trees and power lines, delaying flights at O'Hare International Airport and soaking commuters who slogged to work under crumpled umbrellas. Paul Beaty/AP

Pedestrians laugh as they fight high winds and rain along South Wabash Avenue at East Jackson Boulevard in Chicago's Loop on Oct. 26. Strong wind and torrential rain buffeted the Midwest Tuesday as forecasters predicted the giant storm could be the most powerful to hit Illinois in over seven decades. Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune/AP

Stop signs are posted in the middle of the street after power was knocked out following a storm at passed through the area in Vincennes, Ind., on Oct. 26. Darron Cummings/AP

Crews with Duke Energy work to restore power to parts of Vincennes, Ind. following a storm that passed through the area on Oct. 26. Darron Cummings/AP

Perry-Clear Creek firefighters monitor the site along Fairfax Road south of Bloomington, Ind. where a tree lies across a power line following a storm on Oct. 26. David Snodgress/Bloomington Herald-Times/AP

Gary Anderson, who works in cab assembly at the Case-New Holland tractor plant in Mount Pleasant near Racine, Wis., looks through the broken glass of his damaged vehicle after stones blew off the plant roof on Oct. 26. A storm swept an area that stretched from the Dakotas to the eastern Great Lakes. Mark Hertzberg/Journal Times/AP

A storm cloud that produced brief drizzles moves east over Monroe, Mich., on Oct. 26. Andre J. Jackson/Detroit Free Press/AP

Two Red Cross workers walk away from a barn that was lifted off its foundation by a tornado on Oct. 26, in Mount Pleasant, Wis. Wisconsin is one of eleven states in the midwest under a high wind warning. Carrie Antlfinger/AP

Heavy snow squalls fill the air as the Hermantown football team rushes the field after beating Cloquet 18-7 on Oct. 26, in Hermantown, Minn. during the first round of the Minnesota High School Section 7AAAA tournament. An unusually strong fall storm has caused extreme weather conditions in the upper midwest region of the United States. Clint Austin /The News Tribune/AP

Terry North walks past a section of a roof that blew off his apartment in Covington, Ky., during a storm, on Oct. 26. Patrick Reddy/The Enquirer/AP

A woman checks out suspected tornado damage at a house in Randolph County on Oct. 26, near Muncie, Ind. A storm drawing comparisons to a hurricane muscled across the Midwest on Tuesday, snapping trees and power lines. Eleven states including Indiana are under a high wind warning. Chris Bergin/The Star Press/AP

A knocked down tree is shown on Oct. 26, after a tornado touched down near Racine, Wis. Gregory Shaver/Journal Times/AP

The roof of the Centerview Community Church in South Whitley, Ind. lies in a cornfield on Oct 26. Reverand Roy Blake said no one was hurt in the storm and damage to the 150-year-old church was limited to the attic. Samuel Hoffman/The Journal Gazette/AP